Fazil Iskander Quotes

#1. I don't have any advice at all. I think we all make the films that reflect the kind of people we are; we all make such different films. There's not just one way of doing it.

Kim Longinotto

#2. The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.

Joe Torre

#3. Treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved.

Fazil Iskander

#4. In a relationship you have to communicate, which means listening to her talk. Ladies, you fake orgasms. We fake listening.

Alonzo Bodden

#5. A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.

Chris Brady

#6. I'm reminded of a conversation I had with your father when you wanted to go to Arrida to ransom Erak. I told him, and I'll tell you now, that a queen-to-be has to do these things - has to take chances. Has to get out in the world. You can't rule properly from an ivory tower.

John Flanagan

#7. She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything
maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

John Irving

#8. Y'know, I kind of prefer it when the dead stay dead.'
'Pot. Kettle. Black,' Owen said.
'Yeah,' agreed Jack with a shrug. 'The difference is, I do it with style.

Trevor Baxendale

#9. The aim was to regulate the value of money by increasing or diminishing the quantity of it. The effects of these measures appeared to provide an inductive proof of the correctness of this superficial version of the Quantity Theory, and incidentally concealed the weaknesses of its logic.

Ludwig Von Mises

#10. The law of flotation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. Rather, it was discovered by thinking about things that float naturally.

Wayne Dyer

#11. My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.

Rudy Giuliani

#12. In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

Camilla Lackberg